Heroku Connect

Seamless Heroku and Salesforce data synchronization

Heroku Connect makes it easy for you to build Heroku apps that share
data with your Salesforce deployment. Using bi-directional
synchronization between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres, Heroku Connect
unifies the data in your Postgres database with the contacts, accounts
and other custom objects in the Salesforce database. Easily configured
with a point and click UI, it’s simple to get the service up and
running in minutes – no coding or complex configuration is required.

Build apps that span Heroku and Salesforce

With your Salesforce data in Heroku Postgres, you can easily combine
the capabilities of the Lightning Platform and Heroku. Apps built using standard open source stacks, like Rails, Node.js and Python, connect natively to Postgres – and via Heroku Connect, directly back to Salesforce. Creating apps that extend your data and processes
directly to your customers is now as simple as writing SQL.

Heroku External Objects

Heroku External Objects allows you to make data in a Heroku Postgres database available within your Salesforce deployment to create, read, update, and delete. You can build sophisticated apps in Heroku and have your application data exposed in Salesforce business processes, allowing you to create seamless experiences, while keeping all of the data in Heroku Postgres.

App data, product data, sensor data, customer data — any data in Heroku Postgres can be integrated into Salesforce with a simple point and click configuration. Heroku External Objects provides a new architectural option for building engagement apps that create unified customer experiences across business systems. Used with Salesforce Connect, Heroku External Objects is available as part of Heroku Connect.

Developer simplicity and scale

Heroku works directly with your development flow and your favorite stacks and languages. With the Heroku add-on ecosystem, the most popular tools and databases – such as Mongo, New Relic and Redis – are easily available to your apps. And with Heroku already serving over 13 billion transactions a day, including popular consumer-scale Internet sites like Bonobos and Upworthy – it has the proven ability to scale to your most demanding and high volume customer applications.

Heroku Connect is the glue that unites our customer-facing apps with our administration backend. Data synchronizes back and forth seamlessly.

Build great customer apps on Heroku,
easily connect them to business processes in Salesforce

Point and click configuration

Configure Heroku Connect through a Web UI that is easy for either
developers and Salesforce business users to set-up and manage. Choose
Read-Only or Read/Write mode. Map as many Salesforce objects and
fields as you need. Heroku Connect replicates your Salesforce data
model inside Postgres and supports all standard and custom Salesforce
objects.

Optimized Lightning Platform interactions

Heroku Connect uses a variety of methods to optimize interactions
between a Heroku Postgres database and the Lightning Platform APIs,
including SOAP, Bulk, Streaming and other batch processes. Choose the objects and
attributes you want to map between the systems and commit. The
synchronization process will operate automatically. The result:
integrated application data across the Lightning Platform and Heroku.

Leverage the power of Heroku Postgres

Heroku Postgres is a SQL database-as-a-service that lets you focus on
building your application instead of messing around with database
management. With features like forking and following, data rollbacks,
data clips, and multi-ingress, working with Postgres has never been
more powerful and intuitive. Continuous data protection, automatic
health checks, and high availability at the premium level means you
can scale without worry.

Repeatable automation

Heroku Connect provides an API to automate the creation, maintenance, and monitoring of sync operations. This endpoint helps with tasks that most need repeatable automation, such as: consistent configuration across development, staging, and production environments; managing connections across multiple Salesforce deployments, and integrating Heroku Connect status with existing operational systems and alerts.

Integrate Postgres data with business processes in Salesforce

With Heroku External Objects, you can expose app data stored in Heroku Postgres inside Salesforce for use in business processes such as service case management. You can view and update ecommerce order details, external device status, or service requests. The data in Postgres is exposed as an external object and queried on access to facilitate real-time integration by reference, so you can access fresh data without needless copies.

Sync data without any integration code

Easy point and click set-up

Free edition for proof of concepts

Heroku Connect Demo Edition

Unify your Heroku App Data with your Salesforce Business Processes. Available with just one click from the Heroku Add-ons Marketplace